Word: fired
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intercollegiate shoot at Princeton Saturday by a score of 203 out of a possible 250 birds. The weather conditions were excellent and there was no breeze to disturb the the contestants. Each man shot at 50 birds thrown 10 at a time at unknown angles and on the rapid fire system. The scores were as follows...
...ancients. Instead of ten syllables to a verse there are more often eleven, with now and then a passage in rhyme. The style as a whole is very subtle and obscure. The basis of the poem is the fable of Prometheus: He attempts to bring light and fire to the people of the earth, then in darkness, but only partly succeeds; and in the end ruins himself. Out of this myth has been developed a philosophical back ground for the poem, having as its theme the thought that, when people make an effort to better the world they are always...
...found that the original donation of $25,000 would not cover entirely the cost of the building, and the New York Harvard club at once subscribed $2,500 more. By the last of December the building was well toward completion. On the morning of December 27 a fire started in a small work-house where workmen were heating creosote shingle-stain. An explosion followed, which set fire to the boat house and in a very short time the building had burned to the ground. The launch, Frank Thompson, which was lying near, was also destroyed...
...object of this reception hall is to provide a warm and comfortable place where ladies may rest, before or during the games on the field. With this in view there is a large, open fire-place, built of rough brick, in a recess near one corner of the room. In it there will always be a wood fire on afternoons when there are games. Opening from the same side of the hall are toilet rooms, equipped with all facilities for the use of visitors. The upper story of the lodge contains dwelling rooms only, and will not be open...
...laboratory for the Mining and Metallurgy Department. The building will be a brick shell with a flat roof and will have a smoke-stack 50 feet high. It will be 79 feet long and 40 feet wide. The southern half will be fitted u with appliances for fire-work and will also have the new assay furnaces. In the northern half there will be a Reverberatory roasting furnace, a cupola furnace and a Bruckner revolving roaster, besides some gas furnaces and melting furnaces for illustrating the metallurgy of steel...